"Microsoft is currently testing a modified version of Internet Explorer 9 on its Xbox 360 console, according to our sources. The Xbox 360 currently includes Bing voice search, but it's limited to media results. Microsoft's new Internet Explorer browser for Xbox will expand on this functionality to open up a full browser for the console. We are told that the browser will let Xbox users surf all parts of the web straight from their living rooms." So, when did browsing on your TV turn into something that isn't useless?

I was browsing the internet on my Dreamcast back when it was out. Dial up connection, and it was low res (though websites were designed for lower resolutions at the time), and Flash player was a few versions behind, but it worked. I could even use the light gun to move the cursor and try to "shoot" links to follow them! Good times, especially since it meant I could browse the internet in my room without another family member asking to use the computer.

Yep. The Dreamcast was definitely ahead of its time. I had this really hot friend on college (not your average cute geek girl; more like one of those hot girls most guys dream about) that once told me that she used her Dreamcast to chat on IRC. I was thoroughly surprised that not only she figured how to use Dreamcast, inherited from an older brother, for internet herself (and she didn't strike me as the über smart geek kind) but to chat on IRC of all things!

I mean, I work for one of the big Fortune 500 companies with people that have worked on IT for a lifetime that have a heck of a hard time to even understand what IRC is about and this hottie comes out of nowhere saying that she uses her game console to chat on it...

Today the fact that a game console will be internet-enabled is taken for granted but back in the day that was impressive. I really regret for not having bought one back when I had the chance.